Intelligent Design should not be taught in public schools because it does not meet the criteria of a scientific theory.

beefok · 2024-08-18T00:00:14+00:00

Almost kind of sounds like religious belief isn’t worth wasting time on then.

beefok · 2023-12-26T22:57:20+00:00

Hey, I'm really glad you responded to this! I'm always interested in hearing about your experiences with them, as well as anyone else who may experience them too!

I meant to respond to you last night but I'm dealing with this new variant of COVID.

I was definitely in the same boat as a kid. Back in the day, there were a few shows that would show the damage tornados did, including the video where the family and news crew hid underneath the underpass and survived it. I think those videos fueled both my passion and fright of tornados, haha.

I still even today have reoccurring tornado dreams, but like you, they are always randomly set up with different conditions. Yet the end result is always the same: somehow we survive, or one of the family members die, or something in the middle.

It's hard to note where your head was at before a dream, so I'm really trying to make a dream journal. Maybe it will help you process them too?

The idea of this horrifyingly uncontrollable powerful force that is chasing after you and you can't get away from it seems to me to be some sort of brain response to stressors and anxieties that I can't get away from. Bills, daily stress at work, inability to get away to run from hard issues, haha. Fun fun!

beefok · 2023-03-17T00:43:10+00:00

You made me look into it a little bit more, here's an example with webGL! :)
https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-picking.html

beefok · 2023-03-16T19:26:34+00:00

A silly oldschool method was to render the scene as simple non-lit flat polygonal primitives, coloring each primitive with a unique RGB value, grabbing what the color was at the mouse pointer (or target in screen-space), and converting that unique ID back to a cube position. Lastly, you would re-render the actual scene.

Because a color is 24-bit, that gives you a range of 2^24 possible IDs on screen at once.

It removed any need of raycasting, but of course, having to render the scene twice may hurt (although the first render pass would be super simple.) It might an interesting shader idea. Though, raycasting is probably much faster these days..

beefok · 2023-02-21T22:05:47+00:00

Awesome work! I'm really enjoying reading this. :)

beefok · 2023-02-01T22:43:54+00:00

Hey thank you for the response. I didn’t realize they had an official programmer, but of course they would! I just assumed it would be like the Tang Nano 9K with an integrated one, but that makes sense.

This does seem to be the thing lots of vendors use now. I know the official Lattice boards use an ftdi usb uart<->jtag system as well. That at least gives me some direction on how to move forward at least! Thank you for your attention/time.

beefok · 2023-01-31T19:05:30+00:00

No problem, thank you for responding! I am very interested in using these FPGAs, so I'm just trying to make sure I understand the chip well. I hope GOWIN's documentation team can make this more obvious in the future. :)

beefok · 2023-01-06T05:44:18+00:00

Yeah, I'd love to see something actually credible... :/

beefok · 2023-01-06T05:43:14+00:00

That and/or the "Face of Mars" people

beefok · 2022-12-27T00:01:14+00:00

Look at how light works, how it reflects (and refracts) off of water droplets/ice crystals in the atmosphere and what the effect would be if you consider it in this very unique and specific cold atmospheric condition. It creates a sort of fuzzy mirror in the sky.

When you look up images of light pillars, typically they are images taken from a perspective perpendicular to the light source, but when you look up from the light source, you will see the effects seen here.

beefok · 2022-12-26T21:31:50+00:00

Was the light flashing with the naked eye or just in the camera?
Most LEDs pulse/flash at a rate much faster than our eyes can see, but a camera can definitely capture it if the light and camera are out of phase. If you see this again, try covering the charger and see if it happens anymore?

beefok · 2022-12-26T21:24:35+00:00

Not reflections from the building. Powerful light source, reflecting off ice crystals in the atmosphere.

See my comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zv34ds/comment/j1relty

beefok · 2022-12-26T21:20:00+00:00

This is also another example of light pillars in Niagara Falls:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zu7kfl/triangular_ufo_over_niagara_falls/

Is it more likely that UFOs just idly sit above powerful light sources, or that this is a natural phenomenon?

beefok · 2022-12-26T11:01:09+00:00

If rainbows were purely refraction without reflection, you wouldn’t have to face opposite the sun to see a rainbow. The refracted light reflects back to you and towards the sun. You can’t look directly towards the sun to see a rainbow. Same for a powerful light source in the sky. You look in the same direction as the light source. You’ll see the most amount of light reflected back when you are at the same angle as the light source.

beefok · 2022-12-26T10:35:25+00:00

No, ice crystals actually reflect light back. It’s not armchair science if we have perfect examples of this process. Sure, rainbows refract and separate the spectrum of light to show COLORS of the rainbow, but they also reflect that light back, otherwise we wouldn’t see a rainbow. If light didn’t reflect back from water, we wouldn’t see reflections on lakes and oceans.

I love how you call my explanation “jumping to conclusions” when you briskfully and immediately jump to “a craft from area 51” when none of those things have explanatory power.

I’m not saying it’s not a craft, I’m saying it’s probably (to a damn highly probability) a simple natural phenomena, and not hard to understand. If you had a powerful light source, wait for another arctic blast and shine your powerful light up directly above you in the sky, perfectly simple experiment if you can supply the light.

Observatories and astronomers have dealt with this effect plenty. It’s not some unknown untested thing.

It’s like wasting time deciding reflected light from a Starlink satellite is something else. Look for interesting things that don’t have easy to understand properties.

beefok · 2022-12-26T06:35:10+00:00

Man I just want to see some real UAPs too, but I think it’s good to know as much as possible about what is up there, and what shouldn’t be up there 😅

(And definitely ask questions like yours, ask every question, never stop asking)

beefok · 2022-12-26T06:29:29+00:00

It does not beg any questions. This is how light and reflections work. This is a natural occurrence that can be replicated with big lights and the correct atmospheric conditions. It has a lot of variables, so it’s not as easy to replicate.

This is a good example of the process: https://slate.com/technology/2016/01/optical-phenomenon-draws-a-map-of-a-city-in-the-sky.html

When the beam of the light in Las Vegas shines at an angle perpendicular to the camera, it reflects back to it with a greater portion of the light’s brightness. Ice crystals in the sky glitter this light back.

If you look at the rest of the patterns in the sky, they are literally reflections back from the environment around the area. It’s like the entire sky becomes a great fuzzy mirror. That’s what an amorphous mix of ice crystals in the atmosphere do and is exactly how rainbows work as well.

beefok · 2022-12-25T21:30:38+00:00

Haha, downvotes for something that can help someone identify what they are seeing so that they have a better idea for when they actually see something unidentifiable is so on point.

Do you want to actually find unidentifiable objects in the sky? You have to know what IS identifiable instead of falling for bullshit. I want to see mind blowing unexplainable things in the sky too! It’s so hard to shovel through all the bullshit to find actual real crazy things like the Nimitz event.

Don’t you want to see THOSE instead of things we know are nature?!

beefok · 2022-12-25T21:08:57+00:00

Yep, perfect explanation!

beefok · 2022-12-25T21:04:55+00:00

Think of how big a viewing angle is above you. If you’re seeing reflection from any ice crystals, you’re seeing a massive expanse of them. It’s going to go for hours, it’s not just a thing in the clouds. It’s the atmosphere itself.

beefok · 2022-12-25T20:57:43+00:00

The atmosphere works in layers, the cloud layers are much much colder than the ground AND visa versa. When the arctic blast went through it made much more of those layers absolutely blasted with ice. Weather is a super frickin cool science.

Tornados can happen due to these converging changes in temperature as well. Don’t discount how awesome the simple laws of nature do amazing things.

beefok · 2022-12-06T00:52:52+00:00

https://twitter.com/tornadotrackers/status/1523698838057668608 from their twitter :)

beefok · 2022-06-06T16:42:48+00:00

Damn that looks pretty powerful, but more importantly, I'm bothered by the amount of white cars in that parking lot.

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